@@RiKSh4w Nothing anywhere ever guarantees anything. It's a game of chance and skill. Op could always Wiff, you could always draw what you need. Even if you know logistically you should loose the game there's always a chance you don't. Pointing at one card or another or the fact if you just had one more mana is literally meaningless. You didn't have it. "Well If i just-" But you didn't. "If he just played-" He didn't, that's not what happened. It doesn't matter what COULD or SHOULD. It matted WHAT DID.
He's just dumb. He surgical extracts and didn't look through opponents deck and see the blessing there? Not saying he would have annout but still, if he doesn't it shouldn't come as a surprise.
Gaea's Blessing makes Mesmeric Orb one-sided, so it's kind of handy in a deck with Mesmeric Orb so you don't self-destruct. (I build around this combo.)
When making these kinds of comments, try not to spoil it for everyone else... This appeared as a highlight at the bottom of the video and I kind wish it hadn't
I use Gaea's Blessing for infinite recursion but it makes me resilient to mill, haha. In my own mill decks I use something like Scavenging Ooze to eat opponents' Gaea's Blessings.
sometimes the mill player still continues to play for a few turns, confused about what happened. I swear there's a huge chunk of people that don't know Gaea's Blessing is like the best cantrip in the game.
@@Sauvenil Gaea's Blessing is *not* the best cantrip in the game - it's so far from the best cantrip that I have to wonder if you're just joking, but then you look at some of the other comments and people have an unnatural love for the card (probably because of how much some people dislike mill).
@@jaxsonbateman You're clearly misunderstanding and underestimating. It's like a three-in-one modal card. You get the anti-mill, but you also get the recursion effects for your own stuff (play more than one copy and you can shuffle the others back in along with anything you want to reuse) and graveyard fuckery for your opponent's reanimator and graveyard play plans. And aside of that it draws you a card for 1G. If it was an instant it would be overpowered. It hits enough sweet spots to really be a pain in the ass for anyone you play against.
I'm not sure why they would when they're running Tasha's and Surgicals. He saw the deck too when ripping out the Archive Traps and knows he's got nothing going on besides those and the Mesmeric Orbs. Just has to sit on them til he exiles it. Imo still very favored to win.
Love these videos Phil, your respect for the viewer and overall quality are so crazy high compared to the rest of the clash crew. I bet it takes tons of work, kudos to you man.
You can't trick me into an ad read, I go into it willingly! Also, I felt distinctly less pressured into tapping that like button, and I won't stand for it! 😂
Ok, settle down comments people - I'm pretty sure Phil isn't running Gaea's Blessing as anti-opposing mill, but rather as a chance to refresh his own deck if it ends up getting milled via Mesmeric Orb. I wouldn't suggest chucking it in all your decks just because Phil did it and he's pretty decent at Magic - he did it for a pretty specific purpose. For decks that aren't using it for something specific (like this Mesmeric Orb interaction, or the small chance that you want to actually cast it to get some cards back in your deck - which is odd when you can do stuff like Shigeki/Sky Turtle or Timeless Witness and just get it back in your hand), you can only generally justify mainboarding it if mill has decent representation in whatever metagame you're playing in. Even in the sideboard it's not going to be worth it if mill isn't highly represented. Of course, some people will run it anyway just because they dislike playing against mill, but at that point they're not making decisions based on the best deck, but rather the deck they'll have the most fun with - that's fair enough, but it's good that people understand why they're including a card (ie. because it's the most competitive/best option, or because it will lead to the most fun outcomes, or whatever other reasons a person might have).
I was running a Bruvac deck in EDH and someone else had a precon mill deck, I milled ~350 cards. Each player had something that shuffled the graveyard back into the library lol. I retired the mill deck because it's not a reliable winning strategy in EDH.
Great video as usual Phil! A pleasure to watch. At around 2:00, if you have four cards in your graveyard and you know that your first Archive Trap can’t be countered by their Drown in the Loch, to cast all of them safely I think you could hold priority and cast the rest before the first one resolves and goes to the graveyard.
You always gotta love getting undeserved wins. Even assuming the last opponent was only running one copy of Surgical Extraction, they almost certainly had three more Tasha's Hideous Laughters, which, with all the Mindbreak Traps gone, are just shy of guaranteed to exile Gaea's Blessing. I run three copies of Blessing in my Historic deck, and at most it wins against half the mill decks. Surgical is going to bring that down even further.
@@PhilNavidson Yea I looked up a Hypergeometric Calculator, and then used Wolfram Alpha's to get that much precision. W|A says the formula is thus(for these numbers, but you could change them): (4 choose 4) * ((60-4) Choose (7-4)) / (60 Choose 7) 'Choose' can be calculated like this n! / (m! * (n-m)!) where ! is factorial
Ah yes, the combo of drawing a playset of a card in your opening hand whilst your opponent needs to keep a 7 with a fetch and use it on their turn one...
I once brought mill to modern at FNM. My first opponent fetched and passed and on their end step I resolved 4 archive traps. He was so upset he didn't even want to go game 2
So I have a challenge for you. Only permanent cards like creatures enchantments artifacts ect. No instants or sorceries or adventures. only cast cards that will remain on board until an effect removes them. i am cureious what you can do with that.
Gaea's Blessing is a must in any historic game. Love having it single handedly wreck mill decks. Though it felt pretty blasphemous to see it being used IN a mill deck.
Ah I remember back when first Ravnica came out. I had my mill deck (Black/blue) dimir. I had 4 Glimplse the unthinkable and 2 Traumatize. Also 2 Circu, dimir lobotomists. I believe the meta around that time was a lot of "put cards on top of library" with that spinning needle thing. My deck absolutely shredded these meta decks so hard xD It was amazing playing a Glimpse on turn 2 and just watch all their plans fall apart completely. Good times.
That's why I have 2 copies of Gaea's blessing in every deck, even if I play 250 cards and no green XD. But a secret tip to every mill deck player: Play surgical extraction. Since it is an instant which can be cast for 0 mana, you can cast it anytime. When you mill their gaea's blessing, the effect of that gets on the stack, but the blessing is still in the graveyard. Now play the extraction and exile the blessing before it gets shuffled away. They will still shuffle once, but not anymore for the rest of the game
There's nothing better than facing a mill deck when you've got a couple of Gaea's Blessings in there. Just have to hope they don't Tashas away all your Blessings
Just because someone MIGHT comment about it: A lot of European languages use the comma and the period for numbers the opposite way of how they're commonly used in English: with the comma being used to separate a whole number from its decimal component, and a period being used to separate groups of digits for large numbers (the so-called thousands separator, eg saying "14,000" vs "14 000" or "14000"). Also, oops, Gaea's Blessing vs the opponent playing Mill? SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON!
I had no idea what was gonna happen in that last game lol. I was just like “Why is Phil just showing us the deck getting cooked?”
He got us in the first half not gonna lie
Lucky it wasn't hit with the Hideous Laughter.
Or the surgical, or a stifle. A single blessing does not guarantee a win
@@RiKSh4w Nothing anywhere ever guarantees anything. It's a game of chance and skill. Op could always Wiff, you could always draw what you need. Even if you know logistically you should loose the game there's always a chance you don't. Pointing at one card or another or the fact if you just had one more mana is literally meaningless. You didn't have it. "Well If i just-" But you didn't. "If he just played-" He didn't, that's not what happened. It doesn't matter what COULD or SHOULD. It matted WHAT DID.
@@toolittletoolate"It's a game of chance and skill, so bad luck and misplays don't matter."
Whatever you say, dude
That clutch and luck when Gaea's Blessing escaped the mass exile from Tasha's Hideous Laughter
This deck is the absolute epitome of "You triggered my trap card!!"
Nice pfp
@@Myder_Dragon Thanks
Good
The plot twist of you running the single geaea's blessing killed me 😭😭😭
A Guy who BM emotes had it coming tbh
I was playing Timeless Mill against Mono Red a few weeks ago. I got got by the singleton Gaea’s Blessing. Buddy really hated mill. I wasn’t even mad.
He's just dumb. He surgical extracts and didn't look through opponents deck and see the blessing there? Not saying he would have annout but still, if he doesn't it shouldn't come as a surprise.
@@bycoolboy823 i dont think SE lets you look on arena
I play geaeas blessing haha. XD
The mill deck running the anti-mill, lol.
I mean you might as well toss in at least one to tell Mill decks to piss off.
Gaea's Blessing makes Mesmeric Orb one-sided, so it's kind of handy in a deck with Mesmeric Orb so you don't self-destruct. (I build around this combo.)
@@unevenelephant469 Make sure you kill anything like a Scavenging Ooze before it can eat your Blessing.
I almost always throw one in all my green decks because fuck dedicated mill players-
Running anti-mill is practically a necessity for mill decks because they often mill themselves quite a bit in the process.
That Gaea's Blessing killed me
When making these kinds of comments, try not to spoil it for everyone else... This appeared as a highlight at the bottom of the video and I kind wish it hadn't
@@miguelfreitas5343 You don’t have too look at the comments.
@@miguelfreitas5343 To be fair I saw this comment early, too, I just expected the opponent to have it XD
I love Gaea’s Blessing because I hate mill that much. It’s always nice gotcha moment for the mill decks to see
I use Gaea's Blessing for infinite recursion but it makes me resilient to mill, haha. In my own mill decks I use something like Scavenging Ooze to eat opponents' Gaea's Blessings.
I don’t know why I’m laughing so hard at the concede to Gia’s Blessing 🤣🤣
"that's not fair" - says the person running blue, a color known for not playing fair lmao
That bonus game is peak content.
I LOVE Gaea’s Blessing because of that exact moment. It’s always a nice “gotcha” moment for the mill decks to see it.
sometimes the mill player still continues to play for a few turns, confused about what happened. I swear there's a huge chunk of people that don't know Gaea's Blessing is like the best cantrip in the game.
@@Sauvenil Gaea's Blessing is *not* the best cantrip in the game - it's so far from the best cantrip that I have to wonder if you're just joking, but then you look at some of the other comments and people have an unnatural love for the card (probably because of how much some people dislike mill).
I hate it because when I happen to play against a mill deck, the darn card refuses to stay in the deck, I always draw it.
@@jaxsonbateman You're clearly misunderstanding and underestimating. It's like a three-in-one modal card. You get the anti-mill, but you also get the recursion effects for your own stuff (play more than one copy and you can shuffle the others back in along with anything you want to reuse) and graveyard fuckery for your opponent's reanimator and graveyard play plans. And aside of that it draws you a card for 1G. If it was an instant it would be overpowered. It hits enough sweet spots to really be a pain in the ass for anyone you play against.
@@jaxsonbateman it’s definitely not the best but useful to get stuff back into your deck. I just like it to protect me from mill
The instant full delirium is crazy.
They scooped to the blessing so fast I could feel the wave of salt and rage wowww.
Lucky that Tasha's didn't hit the Blessing too. (I just play 3 blessings instead, haha.)
I'm not sure why they would when they're running Tasha's and Surgicals. He saw the deck too when ripping out the Archive Traps and knows he's got nothing going on besides those and the Mesmeric Orbs. Just has to sit on them til he exiles it. Imo still very favored to win.
the rage radiates from the opponents avatar directly out of your moniter
(7:37) That Gaea's Blessing popping up there gave me quite the laugh! Awesome!
Remember to tap that like button like a Wishclaw Talisman ⤵👍
Well... since you asked so nice..... ka blamo 👍
Of course Phil
Wait... you tapped the like button? But that searches for a card! BOOM TIME TO MILL 52 CARDS!!!
But if I tap the button, then you'll gain control of it.
@@christopherlundgren1700 lol yeah I forgot about that
You have activated my trap card! I summon Pot of Greed to draw three additional cards from my deck.
Love these videos Phil, your respect for the viewer and overall quality are so crazy high compared to the rest of the clash crew. I bet it takes tons of work, kudos to you man.
Will never stop asking for more Phil.
You can't trick me into an ad read, I go into it willingly!
Also, I felt distinctly less pressured into tapping that like button, and I won't stand for it! 😂
Ok, settle down comments people - I'm pretty sure Phil isn't running Gaea's Blessing as anti-opposing mill, but rather as a chance to refresh his own deck if it ends up getting milled via Mesmeric Orb. I wouldn't suggest chucking it in all your decks just because Phil did it and he's pretty decent at Magic - he did it for a pretty specific purpose.
For decks that aren't using it for something specific (like this Mesmeric Orb interaction, or the small chance that you want to actually cast it to get some cards back in your deck - which is odd when you can do stuff like Shigeki/Sky Turtle or Timeless Witness and just get it back in your hand), you can only generally justify mainboarding it if mill has decent representation in whatever metagame you're playing in. Even in the sideboard it's not going to be worth it if mill isn't highly represented.
Of course, some people will run it anyway just because they dislike playing against mill, but at that point they're not making decisions based on the best deck, but rather the deck they'll have the most fun with - that's fair enough, but it's good that people understand why they're including a card (ie. because it's the most competitive/best option, or because it will lead to the most fun outcomes, or whatever other reasons a person might have).
That Gaea's blessing turned the table on the table turner :D
The only channel where even the ad read is top quality!
Brewers kitchen is literally my favorite mtg show on youtube. You should try to win with all of kaldra equipment.
That salty scoop of the last game. Perfection.
Been playing mtg for a long time....Have to admit, this restored some of my faith in the game. Great video, brother.
The card mill decks fear to see.
Gaea's blessing.
I was running a Bruvac deck in EDH and someone else had a precon mill deck, I milled ~350 cards. Each player had something that shuffled the graveyard back into the library lol. I retired the mill deck because it's not a reliable winning strategy in EDH.
Great video as usual Phil! A pleasure to watch.
At around 2:00, if you have four cards in your graveyard and you know that your first Archive Trap can’t be countered by their Drown in the Loch, to cast all of them safely I think you could hold priority and cast the rest before the first one resolves and goes to the graveyard.
I thought so too but couldn't they wait for the first to resolve and then counter one of them?
@@BrewersKitchen they could
@@BrewersKitchen Oh, you are quite right! Well, keep up the good work, all the best :)
YES! More Phil decks! I've been in withdrawal it's been too long...
Loved the punish when they went to get a land. Great content, Phil. Love the vids - the editing is really top notch 👍
That’s beautiful, needing your opponent’s help to mill their deck XD
Just wanted to let you know that the editing in this is fire. You are doing an amazing job.
So let me get this straight, they surgical'd but didn't see through your deck to see that Blessing?
Why go trough the entire deck when you can just click the 4 cards you need :)
@@danelo13 why wouldn’t you? It’s good habit to know what the opponent is playing.
@@Matithias Ain't nobody on Arena got time for that!
@@Matithias Arena makes it convenient to not have to look, haha.
Maybe they were just hoping that he would draw it naturally.
i love that you used the korok forest theme when you were playing against the elves deck
the only arena content I'm always hyped to watch, bless you lovely brewer
Holy shit this is my favorite series on youtube
Love it! As always best content on the channel!
Awesome content Phil! Keep up the great work!
1:49 “these traps look kinda stupid once our opponent knows we have them.” Yeah, Traps work best when the target doesn’t know there’s traps.
I’m building this in paper and playing it at my local game store so I can say, Aha, You’ve activated my trap card
Phil, ma favorite from MTGgoldfish. Another epic video was epic. Keep it 💯 👌 😌 😤 💪 😏 💯 up.
Phil videos gotta be some of the tightest on UA-cam tbh. Slickest editing by far
New brewers time for a like.
yep
You always gotta love getting undeserved wins. Even assuming the last opponent was only running one copy of Surgical Extraction, they almost certainly had three more Tasha's Hideous Laughters, which, with all the Mindbreak Traps gone, are just shy of guaranteed to exile Gaea's Blessing.
I run three copies of Blessing in my Historic deck, and at most it wins against half the mill decks. Surgical is going to bring that down even further.
The oops with the Ghost Quarter was the best thing Ive seen on the internet so far today
The Ghost Quarter at 4:46 made me laugh soooo hard, amazing 🤣
That last game was HILARIOUS it was the biggest plot twist
Gaea's Blessing has come to my rescue a few times
That gaea's blessing hit soooooo hard
Most satisfying when you play a copy of a card that directly counters the opponents deck.
that bonus game was brutal lmao
5:34 That is correct
To have all 4 in your opening 7 is precisely 7/97527 or 1 in 13,932 + 3/7
Can you say how you calculated that?
@@PhilNavidson Yea I looked up a Hypergeometric Calculator, and then used Wolfram Alpha's to get that much precision. W|A says the formula is thus(for these numbers, but you could change them): (4 choose 4) * ((60-4) Choose (7-4)) / (60 Choose 7)
'Choose' can be calculated like this n! / (m! * (n-m)!) where ! is factorial
its funny how often mill just concedes at the first sight of Gaea's blessing
That first win?
Was that the screech from the Fear and Hunger Termina song?
That shit was a jumpscare 😭
Ah yes, the combo of drawing a playset of a card in your opening hand whilst your opponent needs to keep a 7 with a fetch and use it on their turn one...
Best ad reads in the field xD
Wish this videos have a bit more in them. 8 minutes for Phil while seth puts out 1 hour long content leaves me wanting.
Mill against mill, what we're all dying to see.
Always a good day when Phil uploads
That single blessing, I love it!
The Thumbnail made me think this was an Anya Forger Mill deck for Universus
this is why gaea's blessing has always ruled even from back in the day when it was a one of in oath of druids
I've seen the 4 traps on a TT game, and yes the oponent fetched first turn...
Gotta love a turn 1 mill out combo that mills out on turn 1 zero times.
I once brought mill to modern at FNM. My first opponent fetched and passed and on their end step I resolved 4 archive traps. He was so upset he didn't even want to go game 2
AHAHAHAH the moment I realized what was going on with the Wish Artifact, I became dead. Such a creative deck
phil content the GOAT
So I have a challenge for you. Only permanent cards like creatures enchantments artifacts ect. No instants or sorceries or adventures. only cast cards that will remain on board until an effect removes them.
i am cureious what you can do with that.
You are a disgusting war criminal for making this deck, and I respect it.
I have a really bad ramp deck that runs a couple of the extra turn spell that shuffles in and I looove playing against mill
Yay, new Brewer vid!!!
Wait, Archive trap got added? I've been waiting for this day!
Wahahaa!! 😂 What a hilarious deck!
the wishclaw interaction is pretty cool omg and ghost quarter lol
I run Gaea's Blessing in my go shintai deck. When I go up against a mill deck they always concede on the blessings trigger
I see brewers kitchen i tap like button. Simple bit effective
Gaea's blessing, The ULTIMATE anti-mill safety net
Gaea's Blessing is a must in any historic game. Love having it single handedly wreck mill decks. Though it felt pretty blasphemous to see it being used IN a mill deck.
I was wondering why not a full mill deck with four archive traps.
My first ever game of Magic involved a guy milling all four players. To this day I always run a Gaia's Blessing as long as it's in my commander color.
OOO YEA BREWER IS BACK !
I LOVE ANYA SO MUCH
Me watching The Queen's Gambit:
When someone brings a Yu Gi Oh deck to a game of MTG
Doomsday Excruciator - Each player exiles all but their bottom six cards
5:15 field of ruin doesn’t force since you can “fail to find” even when you still have lands to search for.
They still technically search their library, even if they "fail to find".
The Gaea’s Blessing ending is gorgeous
OK everyone at Goldfish makes great content, but Fil's stuff I just can't get enough of. This man brews decks like me, but he wins
its hilarious when they take the bait to search their library and then you archive trap them xD
Ah I remember back when first Ravnica came out. I had my mill deck (Black/blue) dimir. I had 4 Glimplse the unthinkable and 2 Traumatize. Also 2 Circu, dimir lobotomists.
I believe the meta around that time was a lot of "put cards on top of library" with that spinning needle thing.
My deck absolutely shredded these meta decks so hard xD It was amazing playing a Glimpse on turn 2 and just watch all their plans fall apart completely.
Good times.
That Bonus Game was Aight!
That's why I have 2 copies of Gaea's blessing in every deck, even if I play 250 cards and no green XD. But a secret tip to every mill deck player: Play surgical extraction. Since it is an instant which can be cast for 0 mana, you can cast it anytime. When you mill their gaea's blessing, the effect of that gets on the stack, but the blessing is still in the graveyard. Now play the extraction and exile the blessing before it gets shuffled away. They will still shuffle once, but not anymore for the rest of the game
Lol loved the intro and that anime.
There's nothing better than facing a mill deck when you've got a couple of Gaea's Blessings in there. Just have to hope they don't Tashas away all your Blessings
This is one of the better ones :)
using the talisman was ok, but knowing out gameplan the obvious line was grabbing a counter
THE PLOT TWIST OF THE CENTURY MY JAW
Just because someone MIGHT comment about it:
A lot of European languages use the comma and the period for numbers the opposite way of how they're commonly used in English: with the comma being used to separate a whole number from its decimal component, and a period being used to separate groups of digits for large numbers (the so-called thousands separator, eg saying "14,000" vs "14 000" or "14000").
Also, oops, Gaea's Blessing vs the opponent playing Mill? SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON!
Sick mill strategy. Hilarious bait in game 1.
Did you know field of ruin is not a may ?
That card always enables archive trap.
I think you need to put more doublecast in here
like
all of the ones your colors have access to maybe
Hahaha Du bist echt ein Monster, Mann. Sehr geil.
The baits on this are just too funny: "Oh no, your land got destroyed, want to search for a new one? *wink* *wink*"
Phil: they're playing elves.
*LoZ BGM*
🤣🤣🤣